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With global attention set to be firmly focused on Qatar during COP18, the Sustainable Innovation Forum will concentrate on actions, solutions and leadership as well as the challenges and opportunities that exist for increased sustainable development. The forum will once again feature high-level government and private sector panellists via three C-level plenary sessions to discuss how to greater mobilise public-private-partnerships (PPPs), the challenges of sustainable urbanisation with an ever-increasing population, and the latest advances in technology and innovation.

With special emphasis on emerging markets and nations, this plenary session will bring together government bodies, the private sector and the leading non-governmental organisations that are catalysing the increasing involvement of business within sustainable development. The debate will focus on how strategically business and governments can best work together to achieve joint sustainability targets; the success of public-private partnerships; innovative projects that can breath new life into the carbon reduction agenda; economic and market barriers to green growth; accelerating the green energy shift, and the challenges of sustainable development within a developing world context.

With 3.5 billion people already living in cities and by 2055 an estimated 75% of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas, cities present the world’s population with the best chance of reducing our ecological footprint, through improvements in transport, energy, buildings, technology, water and waste systems. This panel debate will focus on the issues faced in both developed and developing urban landscapes and will include special emphasis on the Middle East region, bringing in expertise from the Emirates Green Building Council and Gulf Organisation for Research & Development. In addition, discussion areas will include lighting, smart-grid technologies, measurement of city-scale emissions, the challenges facing cities today and the barriers to greater urban development.

The final panel session will focus on the green technologies and innovations that global business and industry are developing and integrating into the green economy and how these can be supported and accelerated by government. After a broad initial discussion on the importance of technology and innovation in ensuring climate resilience, the debate will focus on four main areas - transport and mobility; food, water and agriculture; innovative finance and funding mechanisms for green growth and lastly how governments can support businesses to bring forward technological advancements.

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The Sustainable Innovation Forum 2012 is organised by Green Media Ltd, and is part of the Climate Action Programme, a global communications platform run in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Through a leading publication (now it’s sixth year) and via an acclaimed forum and exhibition, Climate Action highlights the government policies and business solutions that are needed to become resilient to, and take advantage of, a changing climate.